About Me
I am a Research Associate in the Vogeler Lab and a PhD student in the Graduate Degree Program in Ecology at Colorado State University in Fort Collins, CO. I am also the primary developer on the Invasive Species Habitat Tool (INHABIT), a web-based decision support tool hosted by the USGS.
My current research focus on species distribution modeling through the development of novel model assessment and extrapolation approaches, with a focus on terrestrial invasive plants species. Through these approaches I hope to improve our understanding the spatial processes underlying plant invasions and expand the utility of models for invasive species management.
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Education
| PhD | Ecology | Colorado State University | 2026 (Anticipated) |
| MS | Watershed Science | Colorado State University | 2018 |
| BA | Anthropology | University of Wisconsin-Madison | 2006 |
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Publications
Peer-Reviewed Journal Articles
- Evans, A.E., Jarnevich, C.S., Beaury, E.M., Engelstad, P.S., Teich, N.B., LaRoe, J.M., & Bradley, B.A. (2023). Shifting hotspots: Climate change projected to drive contractions and expansions of invasive plant abundance habitats. Diversity and Distributions, ddi.13787. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13787
- Burner, R.C., Daniel, W.M., Engelstad, P.S., Churchill, C.J., & Erickson, R.A. (2023). BioLake: A First Assessment of Lake Temperature-Derived Bioclimatic Predictors for Aquatic Invasive Species. Ecosphere 14(7): e4616. https://doi.org/10.1002/ecs2.4616
- Beaury, E.M., Jarnevich, C.S., Pearse, I., Evans, A.E., Teich, N., Engelstad, P., LaRoe, J., & Bradley, B.A. (2023). Modeling habitat suitability across different levels of invasive plant abundance. Biological Invasions 1-13. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03118-z
- Jarnevich, C., Engelstad, P., LaRoe, J., Hays, B., Hogan, T., Jirak, J., Pearse, I., Prevéy, J., Sieracki, J., Simpson, A., Wenick, J., Young, N., & Sofaer, H. R. (2023). Invaders at the doorstep: Using species distribution modeling to enhance invasive plant watch lists. Ecological Informatics, 101997. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2023.101997
- Engelstad P., Jarnevich C.S., Hogan T., Sofaer H.R., Pearse I.S., et al. (2022). INHABIT: A web-based decision support tool for invasive plant species habitat visualization and assessment across the contiguous United States. PLOS ONE 17(2): e0263056. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0263056
- Erickson, R.A., Engelstad, P.S., Jarnevich, C.S., Sofaer, H.R., & Daniel, W.M. (2022). Climate matching with the climatchR R package. Environmental Modelling & Software, 10551 https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsoft.2022.105510
- Jarnevich, C.S., Sofaer H.R., Engelstad P., & Belamaric, P. (2022). Regional models do not outperform continental models for invasive species. Neobiota. https://doi.org/10.3897/neobiota.77.86364
- Jarnevich, C.S., Sofaer, H.R., & Engelstad, P. (2021). Modelling presence versus abundance for invasive species risk assessment. Diversity and Distributions, 27(12), 2454-2464. https://doi.org/10.1111/ddi.13414
- Young, N.E., Jarnevich, C.S., Sofaer, H.R., Pearse, I., Sullivan, J., Engelstad, P., & Stohlgren, T.J. (2020). A modeling workflow that balances automation and human intervention to inform invasive plant management decisions at multiple spatial scales. PLOS ONE, 15(3), e0229253. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0229253
- Engelstad, P.S., Falkowski, M.J., D’Amato, A.W., Slesak, R.A., Palik, B.J., Domke, G.M. & Russell, M.B. (2019). Mapping black ash dominated stands using geospatial and forest inventory data in northern Minnesota, USA. Canadian Journal of Forest Research, 48(8), 892-902. https://doi.org/10.1139/cjfr-2018-0481
- Engelstad, P.S., Falkowski, M., Wolter, P., Poznanovic, A., & Johnson, P. (2019). Estimating canopy fuel attributes from low-density LiDAR. Fire, 2(3), 38. https://doi.org/10.3390/fire2030038
- Woodward, B., Engelstad, P., Vorster, A., Beddow, C., Krail, S., Vashisht, A., & Evangelista, P. (2017). Forest harvest dataset for northern Colorado Rocky Mountains (1984–2015) generated from a Landsat time series and existing forest harvest records. Data in brief, 15, 724-727. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dib.2017.10.030
Book Chapters
- Engelstad, P., Carver, D., & Young, N. E. (2024). Creating Presence and Absence Points. In J. A. Cardille, M. A. Crowley, D. Saah, & N. E. Clinton (Eds.), Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine (pp. 1133–1155). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26588-4_52
- Engelstad, P., Carver, D., & Young, N. E. (2024). Working with GPS and Weather Data. In J. A. Cardille, M. A. Crowley, D. Saah, & N. E. Clinton (Eds.), Cloud-Based Remote Sensing with Google Earth Engine (pp. 1121–1131). Springer International Publishing. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-26588-4_51
Software & Datasets
- Engelstad P., Jarnevich, C., Sofaer, H., Daniel, W., Peterman, L., Erickson, R.A. (2023). climatchR: An implementation of CLIMATCH in R. v2.0. U.S. Geological Survey software release. Reston, VA. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9ILPPTC
- Jarnevich, C.S., LaRoe, J., Engelstad, P., Hays, B., Henderson, G., Williams, D., Shadwell, K., Pearse, I.S., Prevey, J.S., & Sofaer, H.R. (2023). INHABIT species potential distribution across the contiguous United States (ver. 3.0, February 2023): U.S. Geological Survey data release. https://doi.org/10.5066/P9V54H5K
- Evans, A., Beaury, E.M., Engelstad, P.S., Teich, N.B., & Bradley, B.A. (2022). Shifting hotspots: Climate change projected to drive contractions and expansions of invasive plant abundance ranges. Data and Datasets. 157. https://doi.org/10.7275/f172-4c95